Across market, investors became poorer by a whopping Rs 1.37 lakh crore as 7 out of every 10 stocks fell. Indian stock market has dropped out of the trillion-dollar club with market capitalisation currently standing at Rs 60.2 lakh crore.

Brokers said the market remained under pressure as the rupee hit a record low of 61.80 against the dollar raising fears of higher inflation and increase of capital outflows.

They said the falling rupee also raised concerns about more monetary tightening measures which might hurt revenues of leading companies depending on imports.

The Nifty index on the National Stock Exchange tumbled 143.15 points, or 2.52 per cent, to 5,542.25, led by stocks of consumer durables, metals, banks and other interest-sensitive sectors.

SX40 index, the flagship index of MCX-SX, closed at 11,125.38, down 303.34 points, or 2.65 per cent.

Market sentiment dampned further as a non-index stocks of Financial Technologies, the promoter of National Spot Exchange, tumbled 19.60 per cent to Rs 159.15 following reports that the government is likely to ban trading in e-series contracts on NSEL.

The consumer durables sector index suffered the most by losing 5.55 per cent followed by realty index (4.45 per cent). Bank index fell by 3.90 per cent and metal index by 3.24 per cent.